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Sphere Within Sphere by Arnaldo Pomodoro | Amazing Images.

The Sphere Within Sphere, also known as Sfera con Sfera, is a series
of sculptures created by Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro depicting an
enormous metal sphere with a cracked surface revealing an intricate
interior with another cracked sphere inside. Pomodoro originally created
it for the Vatican Church in the 1960s, but later began building them
for other organizations and can now be found in prime locations all over
the world such as the Headquarters of the UN in New York, Trinity
College in Dublin, The Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis,
USA, The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, the Columbus Museum of Art
in Columbus and the Tel Aviv University in Israel, to name a few.
Sphere Within Sphere in Vatican. Photo credit Arnaldo
Pomodoro says that the inner ball represents the Earth and outer ball
represents Christianity. The design of the internal layers which look
like the gears or cogwheels of a complex machine symbolizes the
fragility and complexity of the world.
“The sphere is a marvelous
object, from the world of magic, wizards, whether it is of crystal or
bronze, or full of water…It reflects everything around it, creating such
contrasts that it sometimes is transformed, becoming invisible, leaving
only its interior, tormented and corroded, full of teeth,” explained
the artist. “That’s what drives me to make the spheres: breaking these
perfect, magic forms in order reveal (find, discover) its internal
ferment, mysterious and alive, monstrous and yet pure; so I create a
discordant tension, a conflict, with the polished shine: a unity
composed of incompleteness. In my sculpture, the shape of today’s world
contains within itself the form of the ‘ideal city’ as conceived by the
artists of the Italian Renaissance. This, in turn, contains my hopes and
dreams, and those of countless other citizens of the world.”
Sphere Within Sphere in Trinity College. Photo creditPhoto credit
The Sphere in Vatican. Photo credit
Sphere Within Sphere in Dublin. Photo creditPhoto credit
Sources: Vatican.com / Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation